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The Borderlands of Taurgur

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The Borderlands of Taurgur is a gargantuan, orderly nation, ruled by the Presence of Taurgur with an iron fist, and notable for its infamous sell-swords, parental licensing program, and suspicion of poets. The hard-nosed, hard-working, cynical, humorless, devout population of 17.005 billion the Losts are kept under strict control by the oppressive government, which measures its success by the nation's GDP and refers to individual citizens as "human resources."

The medium-sized, corrupt, moralistic, well-organized government is primarily concerned with Defense, although Spirituality, Law & Order, and Environment are also considered important, while Healthcare and Welfare receive no funds. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of the Heart of Taurgur. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 12.7%.

The frighteningly efficient Taurgurian economy, worth a remarkable 1,957 trillion deaths a year, is highly specialized and mostly made up of the Arms Manufacturing industry, with significant contributions from Furniture Restoration. Black market activity is rampant. State-owned companies are reasonably common. Average income is an impressive 115,092 deaths, but there is a large disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 497,826 per year while the poor average 16,923, a ratio of 29.4 to 1.

Punk rockers smash it up and then clean it up, it's said that a the Lost always pays his debts with significant compounding, a new guerrilla marketing campaign for tap water involves government agents spraying random citizens with hose water, and The Presence of Taurgur has been known to make speeches in fishing waders. Crime is all-pervasive, perhaps because of the country's complete lack of prisons. Taurgur's national animal is the lost soul, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its national religion is Suicide by Dissapearance.

Taurgur is ranked 345,607^th in the world and 315^th in Forest for Nicest Citizens, with 0.06 average smiles per day.

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